Dear Sir, Having a little leisure, I wish to fullfill my promise, of giving you some facts, and Anecdotes, prior to the Battle of Lexington, which I do not remember to have seen in any history of the American Revolution. In the year 1773 I was imployed by the Select men of the Town of…
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The General Committee of South Carolina
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. April 3. –This day the committee at New York received a letter from the general committee of South Carolina, in which they say: “The present struggle seems to us most glorious and critical. We seem to ourselves to stand…
Patriotic Jury
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. A trial about a disputed horse race that has been run on Rye Flats, came on to-day before Peter Guion, Esq., at Besley’s tavern, at New Rochelle. One of the parties demanded a jury, and the justice accordingly issued…
Soldiers in Boston
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. We are constantly agitated by hearing complaints from different persons of the more than savage barbarity of the soldiers in Boston, encouraged and often joined and headed by the officers. They are now become so insolent that it is…
A Royal Mob
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 9. –As the populace of Boston have thought fit to repeal the tarring and feathering act, the king’s troops have thought fit to revive the said statute; and in consequence of such a determination, to-day they gave us…